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From: 2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Full Metal Planet - Don't be mislead!
Message-ID: <26661.273bf45e@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 90 17:36:46 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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I just purchased Full Metal Planet yesterday and I just thought I might warn
you all about it.  Don't be mislead by this statement on the back of the
box:

Off disk copy protection
Manual required.

Now this would make you think its HD installable right?  Wrong.  The game
is protected with both disk and manual protection.  Talk about overkill.
The bootblock has some sort of special loader which makes AmigaDos choke
on its usual CheckSum 880 error. 

To top it off, it has instructions for IBM users on how to install it on
THEIR harddrives!  What a bunch of hippocrites.  What do they think?
Amiga users don't own harddrives or don't put anything on them?

The game is good, I don't begrudge them that.  Just makes me mad that they
make it HD installable on one platform and not the other.

David Poland
2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu